Gaudapada
Advaita Prakaraṇa (chapter III: non-duality)
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Advaita Prakaraṇa (chapter III: non-duality)
अद्वैतप्रकरण
Forty-eight verses. It criticizes devotion that presupposes a born brahman, explains the relation between the ātman and individuals through the image of space within jars, reads the Upaniṣadic creation accounts (clay, iron, sparks) as teaching devices, quotes the Bṛhadāraṇyaka's "neti neti" and describes asparśa-yoga, the state of a mind that ceases to imagine objects. It ends by affirming that no living being is born (3.48).
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Third chapter of the Kārikā; Nakamura considers that it preserves the work's oldest ideas.
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Other works by Gaudapada
- Māṇḍūkya Kārikā (Āgama Śāstra, Gauḍapāda's Verses) · 550
- Āgama Prakaraṇa (chapter I: the revealed tradition) · 550
- Vaitathya Prakaraṇa (chapter II: unreality) · 550
- Alātaśānti Prakaraṇa (chapter IV: the quenching of the firebrand) · 575
- Commentary on the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (Gauḍapāda-bhāṣya)
- Commentary on the Uttara Gītā
- Subhagodaya (hymn of the Śrīvidyā tradition)
- Śrīvidyāratnasūtra
- Other attributed commentaries (Devīmāhātmya, Nṛsiṃha-uttara-tāpanīya, Anugītā, Bṛhadāraṇyaka)
Sources
- Wikisource en sánscrito, «गौडपादकारिका», texto por prakaraṇa (प्रथमप्रकरणम् – चतुर्थप्रकरणम्), con numeración de estrofas.
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